US Politics: Let's Arm All the Teachers! 30 Pieces of Silver to Shoot a Student!

[Martell Spy]

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Here is how she responded:

I think it’s a pretty inappropriate question to ask a daughter if she believes the accusers of her father when he has affirmatively stated that there’s no truth to it. I don’t think that’s a question you would ask many other daughters. I believe my father, I know my father. So I think I have that right as a daughter to believe my father.

 

 

It’s “Inappropriate” to Ask Me About Trump’s Alleged Sexual Assaults, Says White House Women’s Issues Adviser Ivanka Trump

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/02/ivanka-trump-said-questions-about-her-fathers-accusers-were-inappropriate-to-ask-a-daughter.html

[aceluby]

Just now, Martell Spy said:

 

It’s “Inappropriate” to Ask Me About Trump’s Alleged Sexual Assaults, Says White House Women’s Issues Adviser Ivanka Trump

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/02/ivanka-trump-said-questions-about-her-fathers-accusers-were-inappropriate-to-ask-a-daughter.html

Classic trump kids! 

Kids: "Take me seriously!  I'm serious and very prepared for these roles.  I earned this role through hard work and determination."

Anybody: "Can you tell us anything about the President?"

Kids: "He's my ddddaaaaaadddddeeeeeeee!  I can't answer those kinds of questions?  How dare you!  He's my ddddaaaaaadddddeeeeeeee!"

 

[TheKitttenGuard]

Hey, Trump actually brought made a good point that should not totally lost in his narcissism. 

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/375616-trump-some-lawmakers-are-so-scared-of-the-nra

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President Trump on Monday accused some governors of being “scared” of the National Rifle Association and argued that “sometimes” government officials would have to fight the gun lobby to achieve necessary reforms.

 

[lokisnow]

2 hours ago, Fragile Bird said:

Geez, I go off and spend the weekend having a life and no one answers this silliness?

The percentage of arable land in the USA is 16.9%, not fucking 90%, not far off of the world total of 11%. China is at 12.7%. While land use has seen big changes over the decades, the amount of cropland has been relatively stable since 1980 (the definition of arable land is much broader than just cropland). So no, the days of paying farmers not to farm are largely gone, relics of the Regan years. These days the government helps farmers so they won't get hooked on a single crop and do things like crop rotation instead. You'd better link an article that says millions and millions of acre are being left fallow and the farmers being paid off not to farm, and quotes real numbers. If the crop acres have been stable since 1980, I'd like to see where those millions of acres are.

And a decade of drought, like they saw in California, will take millions of acres out of circulation. There's a huge water issue in many agricultural states.

Hell, India's number is 52.6%, Germany's 34%, Hungary's is 48.7%, the Ukraine 57.1%. Canada's is a mere 4.8%.

60% of the world's arable land is in Africa, although some reports suggests 65% of that land might be too damaged for crops. That still leaves about 25% of the world's arable land in Africa. 

Thank you! I’m shocked! Shocked! to discover that the hearsay I heard from farmers bitching and moaning growing up is totally wrong.

the 90% bit actually came from a university history class I took, about China actually, the professor asserted 90% of the us was arable but only 10% of China was. 

[Larry of the Lawn]

58 minutes ago, GAROVORKIN said:

Actually now that I think about it,  I seem to reall that mandate health insurance was a Conservative notion , but then the Democrats thought it was a good idea.   I could be wrong . 

Of course, if you go  back  in history,   The first country to have a mandated healthcare set up was Germany during the time of  Otto Von Bismarck. He came up with as a means of countering the appeal of socialism. It was under his policy of Stealing the Socialist Thunder .  It sort of akin to how the Republicans and Democrats quashed  William Jennings  Bryant and the Progressive party . The other two parties adopted ideas put forward by the Progressive Party and thus rendered them politically moot.  

 

 

Thanks for engaging but you still haven't described what you consider to be far left policies or too far left.  And WJB was a Democrat.  His ideas on bimetallism were never implemented, he was an anti-imperialist whose country went to war during his tenure as secretary of state, and he was publicly disgraced during the Scopes Monkey Trial despite technically 'winning'.  He was also never a member of the Progressive Party. 

But that's all a distraction, isn't it?  Because it has absolutely zero to do with the questions you've repeatedly ignored.

 

ETA:. And you don't have to respond right away.  It's ok to do some light googling to confirm your ideas or organize them in a way that responds to others.  

Or just keep throwing up these devil's advocate equivocating bs both sides errata.

[IheartIheartTesla]

I feel better now that Trump is back below 40 in his approval ratings (and the generic ballot has shifted back to ~ 8-8.5 D+). Presumably there aren't a whole lot of 'independents' Trump can peel off without pissing off some of his base. Gun control would be one such issue.

[Maithanet]

1 minute ago, IheartIheartTesla said:

I feel better now that Trump is back below 40 in his approval ratings (and the generic ballot has shifted back to ~ 8-8.5 D+). Presumably there aren't a whole lot of 'independents' Trump can peel off without pissing off some of his base. Gun control would be one such issue.

It remains to be seen whether Trump's all-over-the-map approach to gun control is going to help him.  He keeps switching between praising the NRA / 2nd amendment types and talking about gun regulations that the NRA hates, like raising the age to purchase a semiauthomatic rifle to 21.  I remain confident that nothing is going to get done on guns, but I don't know if his thrashing around is going to fool people into thinking he wants a "bipartisan solution". 

[Sivin]

5 minutes ago, Maithanet said:

It remains to be seen whether Trump's all-over-the-map approach to gun control is going to help him.  He keeps switching between praising the NRA / 2nd amendment types and talking about gun regulations that the NRA hates, like raising the age to purchase a semiauthomatic rifle to 21.  I remain confident that nothing is going to get done on guns, but I don't know if his thrashing around is going to fool people into thinking he wants a "bipartisan solution". 

CNN's Monday poll has him at 35% approval. I think the electorate might be waking. 

[Maithanet]

5 minutes ago, WinterFox said:

CNN's Monday poll has him at 35% approval. I think the electorate might be waking. 

Hope so, but it's going to take a lot more than just one poll to convince me of that.  A 2010 level drubbing in the 2018 midterms at a minimum. 

[Sivin]

16 minutes ago, Maithanet said:

Hope so, but it's going to take a lot more than just one poll to convince me of that.  A 2010 level drubbing in the 2018 midterms at a minimum. 

Hang in there. 

[Mr. Chatywin et al.]

1 hour ago, Morpheus said:

Trump says if he were at the school, he would have charged in even without a gun. LOfuckingL

 

If memory serves me correctly (because I failed in my Googling attempts), Trump said that he would have helped stop the terrorist attacks in Paris if he had been there with a gun, or something to that effect. Trump’s super power is Monday morning quarterbacking tragedies by claiming how he would have prevented them, even though he’s a total coward at heart.

[Mr. Chatywin et al.]

57 minutes ago, WinterFox said:

CNN's Monday poll has him at 35% approval. I think the electorate might be waking. 

 

50 minutes ago, Maithanet said:

Hope so, but it's going to take a lot more than just one poll to convince me of that.  A 2010 level drubbing in the 2018 midterms at a minimum. 

There’s more encouraging data from this poll. Trump is now at his lowest approval point among self-identified Republicans (80%, his previous low was 81%). He’s also badly under water with Independents, with only 35% approval. Trump’s approval among women is under 30%. I can’t recall if it was from this same poll or a different one, but today on Morning Joe when discussing this poll they also said that only 16% of those surveyed said they strongly approve of Trump while 39% said they strongly disapproved. Those are solid numbers from Democrats’ perspective.

[IamMe90]

28 minutes ago, Tywin et al. said:

If memory serves me correctly (because I failed in my Googling attempts), Trump said that he would have helped stop the terrorist attacks in Paris if he had been there with a gun, or something to that effect. Trump’s super power is Monday morning quarterbacking tragedies by claiming how he would have prevented them, even though he’s a total coward at heart.

It's especially ironic given how Trump himself told an interviewer a story about how he watched a man dying on the ground and did nothing to stop it. Especially great is the part where he talks about how "horrible" it was - not that the person was dying, but that his blood was mucking up the beautiful marble floor.  I can't believe I still get surprised on the weekly over how much of a shitstain he is, you'd think I'd be used to it by now.

[DMC]

Trump is also going to "write out" bump stocks.  What does that mean?  And how, exactly, is he going to do that?  Because fuck you, that's how:

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“Bump stocks, we are writing that out. I am writing that out,” he said, addressing a group of state governors at the White House. “I don’t care if Congress does it or not, I’m writing it out myself." [...]

“You do a rule, have to wait 90 days,” he said. “That’s sort of what’s happening with bump stocks. It’s gone, don’t worry about it. It’s gone, essentially gone, because we are going to make it so tough, you’re not going to be able to get them. Nobody’s going to want them anyway.”

Sounds like some serious presidenting.

[Sivin]

5 minutes ago, dmc515 said:

Trump is also going to "write out" bump stocks.  What does that mean?  And how, exactly, is he going to do that?  Because fuck you, that's how:

Sounds like some serious presidenting.

Don't forget how  Obama was an executive overreach tyrant. 

[GAROVORKIN]

3 hours ago, TheKitttenGuard said:

Bingo!

Ive never played that game.

[GAROVORKIN]

3 hours ago, maarsen said:

Trump has four bankruptcies on his record, while his pilot only has one. I guess he can always strive to emulate his boss.

And yet he still kept getting banks and financial institutions to lend him more money.

[DMC]

10 minutes ago, WinterFox said:

Don't forget how  Obama was an executive overreach tyrant. 

That's because his EOs reflected some type of actual logic.

[The guy from the Vale]

9 minutes ago, GAROVORKIN said:

And yet he still kept getting banks and financial institutions to lend him more money.

Actually, he didn't. He got the Russians to lend him money. US Banks didn't want to touch him with a ten-foot pole. That's slightly different.

[TheKitttenGuard]

33 minutes ago, GAROVORKIN said:

Ive never played that game.

I take you never had a dog with the name either.

Though yes you are correct that Insurance Mandate was primarily a Conservative idea and considered important for a Market based solution for Health Covrage.